Bitter Dogbane - Calscape
Apocynum androsaemifolium (Fly-trap dogbane, Spreading dogbane) is a flowering plant in the Gentianales order. The plant is common in North America, and is widespread across most of the United States and Canada, and in Alaska, California, and Northeast Mexico.
Spreading Dogbane - Apocynum androsaemifolium - Plant Life
Spreading dogbane is an unpleasantly bitter stimulant irritant herb that acts on the heart, respiratory and urinary systems, and also on the uterus. It was widely employed by the native North American Indians who used it to treat a wide variety of complaints including headaches, convulsions, earache, heart palpitations, colds, insanity and ...
Spreading Dogbane - US Forest Service
If you break a spreading dogbane stem or leaf, you will see that the plant contains a bitter, sticky, milky white sap. The sap contains cardiac glycosides that are toxic to humans. The root also contains a potent cardiac stimulant, cymarin. These toxic compounds help protect spreading dogbane from grazing animals.
Apocynum androsaemifolium L. - Calflora
Apocynum androsaemifolium is a perennial herb that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in North America and beyond. ... This plant is available commercially. Jepson eFlora.
Apocynum androsaemifolium (Bitter Root, Dogbane, Dogbane …
Spreading Dogbane is an herbaceous perennial wildflower that is widespread across North America and is found in the mountains of NC in a forest, woodland, forest edge, prairie, meadow or field site. There are numerous small pink, nodding, bell-shaped flowers that are fragrant and striped inside with deeper pink.
Apocynum Androsaemifolium, Bitter Dogbane - American Southwest
Apocynum androsaemifolium is a low growing, branched, shrub-like species that can form large clumps. Plants are quite colorful; bright green leaves (paler underneath), reddish stems and light pink flowers. Stems contain milky sap. Leaves have distinct, lighter-colored veins, and …
Bitter Dogbane, Apocynum androsaemifolium - calscape.org
Apocynum androsaemifolium (Fly-trap dogbane, Spreading dogbane) is a flowering plant in the Gentianales order. The plant is common in North America, and is widespread across most of the United States and Canada, and in Alaska, California, and Northeast Mexico.
Spreading Dogbane
A perennial that grows to 3 to 6 feet in height, and is widely spread from horizontal rootstock. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile. Flowers large, oval, and whitish. The pods are double, 4 to 6 inches long, and slender. The plant produces a milky juice. June to August. Open woods, roadside banks, meadows, thickets, and stream banks.
spreading dogbane - Minnesota Seasons
Alternate Names: Dogbane, milkweed, honeybloom, bitter root, black hemp, hemp dogbane, lechuguilla, westernwall. Uses Warning - Indian hemp can be toxic if ingested without proper preparation. Ethnobotanic: Indian hemp is harvested for fiber. The stems are cut in the fall; they are then split open and the long, silky fibers removed.
BITTER ROOT or SPREADING DOGBANE or WANDERING …
Bitter root has a slow, persistent and extensive influence on intestinal digestion and elimination, stimulating the secretory functions of the liver (liver tubuli), gall ducts, gall cyst, and also the muscular and mucus coats of the kidneys and bowels.